On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:34:28PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Hello! This is my application to be a Trusted User.
Indeed, I'm sponsporing this delinquent. Daniel's an awesome candidate and I look forward to having him as part of the team. Talk amongst yourselves. > My name is Daniel Micay, and I am a 20 year old living in Toronto. Dave > Reisner > (falconindy) is my sponsor. My username on the wiki, github and the forums is > thestinger, and I go by either thestinger or strcat on IRC. > > I started using Linux in 2008/2009 and Arch was the first distribution I liked > enough to install outside of a VM. I quickly fell in love with the elegance of > vanilla, up-to-date packages and eventually moved away from a more traditional > desktop environment to awesome and then i3. Linux was my gateway into > programming, as I picked up shell scripting and that eventually led to > learning > Python. At the moment I mostly use C++ and Python, but I have an interest in > Haskell and more recently Rust. > > I began contributing back to the community in 2010 by putting my efforts into > improving the wiki, and in September of 2011 I joined the ArchWiki > administration team. At some point I became quite active on the #archlinux > channel, and I do my best to disseminate tidbits of knowledge that I've picked > up there. > > The following are packages that I use and would like to maintain in > [community]: > > * rust > * libgit2 > * uwsgi and the official plugins (split package) > * faenza-icon-theme > * intel-gpu-tools > * ohcount > * namebench > * transmission-remote-cli > * sparsehash > * ttf-symbola > > * python-libgit2 and python2-libgit2 (split package) > * python-scrypt and python2-scrypt (split package) > * python-bottle and python2-bottle (split package) > * httpie (not a library, so just python3) > > * libxkbcommon > * kmscon (the tagged release, only -git is in the AUR) > > * ncrack > * reaver > > * vim-indent-object > * vim-fugitive > * vim-systemd > * zenburn and solarized vim colorschemes > > ... and in the future: > > * various rust libraries > * libc++ (currently no stable release) > * libc++abi (linux support is a work-in-progress) > * vim-clang-complete (it needs a new stable release) > > All of these are under free licenses, and most currently meet the 10 vote > threshold (some would have to wait a bit). > > I would also like to look into having the Android SDK in [community], but the > number of licenses it uses is really a mess and I doubt Google's pre-built > version can (or should) be redistributed as-is. > > Thanks for considering my application! :)
